Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (January 2023): Monica Lazăr

The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2022, we’re featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a high level of involvement within the Fstoppers community.

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Critique the Community Sports

Submit Your Most Creative Sports Portraits

For the next Critique the Community LIVE, we want to see your best and most creative sports portraits.

As always, each photographer can submit up to 3 separate images. The highest-rated image and one random image will receive a free tutorial from the Fstoppers Store. Only images with details about the photo in the description will be chosen. As an added bonus, one lucky winner will also receive a free Pro Light Mod kit (two 3’x3’…

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Looking for a Creative Community? Try Canon’s Incubator

A strong community and invested mentors are crucial ingredients for sustainable growth and success. I recently had the chance to sit down and talk with two Canon Canada FUTURES alum, Eli Meadow Ramraj and Gessy Robin Shumbusho, about the importance of community in their careers. The deadline for Canon Canada’s FUTURES Year Two incubator program is fast approaching. If you need that boost you can only get from a committed mentor and supportive community, don’t hesitate, don’t be nervous, apply.

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How This Jaw-Dropping Image Was Created

Earlier this year, the scientific community was abuzz when an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the galactic center of the Milky Way, was released. How did scientists actually create the image, though? It took petabytes of data from a virtual telescope that size of the entire planet. This interesting video will take you behind the scenes to see how it all came together.

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